What Is Charcoal?

A burning question.

Gas Versus Charcoal

Choose what’s under your grate before you choose what goes on top.

Another Excuse to Eat Chocolate

This week’s mission: single-origin candy bars.

Fake Accent

Some foods you think are “ethnic” actually aren’t.

10 Food Feuds

Is there nothing original in food anymore?

Steppin' Up Your Cheese Game

This week’s mission: frozen diet dinners featuring fruit, and classy cheese vehicles.

Life Lessons in Gardening

Brent Ridge of Beekman 1802 discusses leaving Martha behind for dirty feet and early morning pig feedings.

Diet Shake Showdown

This week’s mission: new healthy granola bars and a decent diet shake.

Cheesy Italian-esque Hot Pocket

This week’s mission: doughy calzone-type treats and a desperate cranberry move.

Beer-Flavored Sausage: Genius or Travesty?

This week’s mission: bratwurst with beer flavor already inside.

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country.

10 Japanese Sweets

Venture beyond M&M’s.

10 Exotic Salts

Fun, fancy versions of the kitchen staple.

What's a Maraschino Cherry?

That sweet, bright-red orb can’t possibly be fruit.

Big-Time Barbecue

Ray Lampe, a.k.a. Dr. BBQ, offers up doctor’s orders for perfect summer grilling.